Application of Regulations E+W+S

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations apply to—

(a) every motor vehicle manufactured on or after 1st October 1982 and first used on or after 1st April 1983 and which—

(i) has three or more wheels, and

(ii) is either a goods vehicle, the tractor unit of an articulated vehicle or a bi-purpose vehicle; and

(b) parts of any such vehicles.

(2) These Regulations do not apply to, or to the parts of, any of the following vehicles, that is to say—

(a) a vehicle brought temporarily into Great Britain and which—

(i) displays a registration mark mentioned in Regulation 5 of the Motor Vehicles (International Circulation) Regulations 1971, and

(ii) complies in every respect with the requirements relating to motor vehicles contained in:—

(A) Article 21 and paragraph (1) of Article 22 of the Convention on Road Traffic concluded at Geneva on 19th September 1949(1), and Part I, Part II (so far as it relates to direction indicators and stop lights) and Part III of Annex 6 to that Convention; or

(B) paragraphs I, III and VIII of Article 3 of the International Convention relative to Motor Traffic concluded at Paris on 24th April 1926(2);

(b) a vehicle which is to be exported from Great Britain and which either—

(i) has not been used on a road in Great Britain for any purpose except that of proceeding from the place where it was manufactured to the place from which it is to be taken out of Great Britain, or

(ii) satisfies the criteria of—

(A) being exempt from car tax by virtue of paragraph 7 of Schedule 7 to the Finance Act 1972,

(B) being a vehicle in relation to which there has been a remission of car tax by virtue of paragraph 8 of that Schedule, or

(C) being zero-rated under Regulation 49 or 50 of the Value Added Tax (General) Regulations 1977(3).

(c) a vehicle in the service of a visiting force or of a headquarters (as defined in Article 8(6) of the Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1965;

(d) a vehicle to which sections 45 to 51 and 65 have become applicable after a period of use on roads during which, by virtue of section 188(4) (which relates to vehicles in the public service of the Crown), those sections did not apply to that vehicle;

(e) a vehicle which is of a new or improved type, or is fitted with equipment of a new or improved type, and which has been constructed to that type, or fitted with that equipment, for the purposes of tests or trials or for use as a prototype, and is not intended for general use on roads;

(f) a motor tractor, a light locomotive and a heavy locomotive;

(g) engineering plant, a land tractor, a pedestrian-controlled vehicle, a straddle carrier, a works truck and a vehicle which is track-laying (all as defined in Regulation 3(1) of the Construction and Use Regulations);

(h) a vehicle of a kind described in Article 15, 17 or 18 of the Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) General Order 1979;

(i) a tower wagon as defined in Schedule 4 to the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971;

(j) a fire engine (including an air field crash tender);

(k) a road roller;

(l) a vehicle propelled by steam;

(m) a vehicle constructed for the purpose of preventing or reducing the effect of snow or ice on roads, either by spreading grit or other material, by scooping or sweeping, or by other means;

(n) a two-wheeled motor cycle, with or without a sidecar;

(o) an electrically-propelled vehicle;

(p) a break-down vehicle;

(q) a vehicle the weight of which unladen does not exceed 1525 kilograms constructed or assembled by a person not ordinarily engaged in the trade or business of manufacturing vehicles of that description;

(r) a vehicle the weight of which unladen does not exceed 1525 kilograms imported by an individual into Great Britain and in relation to which the following conditions are satisfied—

(i) the vehicle has been purchased outside Great Britain for the personal use of the individual importing it or of his dependents,

(ii) the vehicle has been so used by that individual or his dependents on roads outside Great Britain before it is imported,

(iii) the vehicle is intended solely for such personal use in Great Britain, and

(iv) the individual importing the vehicle intends, at the time when the vehicle is imported, to remain in Great Britain for not less than twelve months from that time;

(s) a motor ambulance; or

(t) a motor caravan.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 3 in operation at 1.10.1982, see reg. 1

(1)

Cmnd. 7997.

(2)

Treaty Series, No. 11 (1930).

(3)

as amended by the Value Added Tax (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1978 (S.I. 1978/972).